{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-2000/section-123M",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-2000/section-123M.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/38",
  "legislation_title": "Transport Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-2000",
  "path": "section/123M",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "123M",
  "heading": "Variation of scheme",
  "text": "(1) The franchising authority or authorities operating a franchising scheme may vary, or acting jointly may vary, the scheme.\n(2) If the authority or authorities decide to vary a franchising scheme, the authority or authorities must—\n(a) publish a notice of the decision, and\n(b) give notice of the decision to a traffic commissioner.\n(3) The notice of the decision must state the date or dates on which the variations of the scheme are to have effect.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) The notice must be published, and notice must be given to a traffic commissioner, within a period of 14 days beginning with the date on which the decision was made.\n(6) If a franchising authority are a mayoral combined authority, the function of deciding whether to make a proposed variation is a function of the combined authority exercisable only by the mayor acting on behalf of the combined authority (including in a case where the decision is to act jointly to vary a scheme).\n(6A) If a franchising authority are a mayoral CCA, the function of deciding whether to make a proposed variation is a function of the combined county authority exercisable only by the mayor acting on behalf of the combined county authority (including in a case where the decision is to act jointly to vary a scheme).\n(7) The references in subsections (1) to (6A) and Schedule 9A to the franchising authority or authorities in relation to a franchising scheme include a reference to a franchising authority who are not operating the scheme but would do so under a proposed variation.\n(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 123A-123X and cross-heading inserted (27.4.2017 for specified purposes, 27.6.2017 in so far as not already in force) by Bus Services Act 2017 (c. 21), ss. 4, 26(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 123M(3) inserted (26.1.2026) by Bus Services Act 2025 (c. 24), ss. 11(2)(a), 41(5); S.I. 2026/46, reg. 2(i) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 123M(4) omitted (26.1.2026) by virtue of Bus Services Act 2025 (c. 24), ss. 11(2)(b), 41(5); S.I. 2026/46, reg. 2(i) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 123M(6A) inserted (26.12.2023) by Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), s. 255(2)(c), Sch. 4 para. 131 (with s. 247)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 123M(7) substituted (26.1.2026) by Bus Services Act 2025 (c. 24), ss. 11(2)(c), 41(5); S.I. 2026/46, reg. 2(i) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 123M(8)(9) omitted (26.1.2026) by virtue of Bus Services Act 2025 (c. 24), ss. 11(2)(d), 41(5); S.I. 2026/46, reg. 2(i) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 123A-123X: functions transferred (28.2.2024) by The East Midlands Combined County Authority Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/232), regs. 1(2), 15(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 112-159: transfer of functions (5.2.2025) by The Hull and East Yorkshire Combined Authority Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/113), arts. 1(2), 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Pt. 2: transfer of functions (2.11.2018) by The Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland Combined Authority (Establishment and Functions) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/1133), arts. 1, 7 (with art. 28)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Pt. 2: functions made exercisable (2.11.2018) by The Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland Combined Authority (Establishment and Functions) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/1133), arts. 1, 9 (with art. 28)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/38/section/123M",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:32.082416+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}